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Einstein’s Italian Mathematicians. Ricci, Levi-Civita, and the Birth of General Relativity

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Author(s): Judith R. Goodstein
Series: AMS Non-Series Monographs 113
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Year: 2018

Language: English
Pages: 231

Cover......Page 1
Title page......Page 4
Copyright page......Page 5
Dedicaton......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
The Ricci of Lugo......Page 20
The making of a mathematician......Page 26
Munich......Page 32
Padua......Page 38
Math and marriage......Page 46
A promotion that wasn’t......Page 54
The absolute differential calculus......Page 64
The alter ego......Page 74
Intermezzo......Page 88
The indispensable mathematical tool......Page 104
“Write to me next time in Italian”......Page 118
Parallel displacements......Page 134
From Ricci’s absolute differential calculus to Einstein’s theorem for general relativity......Page 152
T. Levi-Civita, “Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro”......Page 166
Obituary of Tullio Levi-Civita......Page 176
Selected references......Page 194
Notes......Page 198
Index......Page 226
Back Cover......Page 231